The first Mid-Kentucky Arts concert of the 2008-2009 season will be at St. Catharine College on Saturday, Oct. 18 starting at 7:30 p.m. The music will not be the only thing new, however, as the season begins.

The concert will be a dedicatory event to mark the arrival of a new piano. The Kawai grand ivories will be tickled by three accomplished musicians who will use the new instrument along with an existing piano in a show titled Dueling Chopsticks.

October is National Domestic Violence Month, and in honor of the month, Campbellsville University's Sociology Club is hosting a "Beauty's for a Brighter Tomorrow" pageant to raise domestic violence awareness.

The pageant will be Saturday, Oct. 18 at 9 a.m. in the Recital Hall at Campbellsville University's Gosser Fine Arts Center.

Age groups for girls range from birth to 19 and older (married or single), and for boys ages birth to 4 years.

A Columbia teen was pronounced dead at Taylor Regional Hospital following a single-car crash in Adair County on Thursday.

According to a Kentucky State Police report, Linda Pelston, 47, of Columbia was traveling north on State Park Road at around 3 p.m. when she met another vehicle, applied her brakes and lost control of her vehicle on the wet road. The vehicle left the roadway and overturned, ejecting Pelston's passengers - Ronnie Pelston, 42, and Tasha Pelston, 16, both of Columbia.

A round of applause erupted throughout the restaurant at the sight of a customer's food being delivered Friday afternoon. And while the pot pie may have been tasty, it wasn't the main course that prompted the applause. It was his choice of beverage, something that hasn't been legally served in Campbellsville in 71 years.

Café Bonin is the first, and so far, the only, restaurant to serve alcohol in Campbellsville since voters approved by the drink sales in May.

Candidates who want to be eligible to have their votes counted as a write-in candidate for the upcoming election have until Friday, Oct. 24 to file with the appropriate filing officer.

"As we head into the homestretch of the 2008 election cycle, I want to encourage those individuals who are considering running as a write-in candidate to file to run as soon as possible," Secretary of State Trey Grayson stated in a press release.

Merrill Lynch had been bought out. Lehman Bros. was broke. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were going under. People were being forced out of their homes after being approved for mortgages they could never pay.

Those are just a few reasons local experts offer in explaining the $700 billion buyout approved recently by the U.S. Congress.

"The loan structure with regard to mortgages and sub-prime loans somewhat triggered [the economic downtown]," said Joe Foster, assistant professor of business and economics.

According to McNear's arrest citation, he allegedly went to an ex-girlfriend's home and then left when he realized the girl was with another man. The citation states that McNear returned to the Purcell Court residence with a baseball bat and allegedly hit the man in the head, back and arm.